Fear and control (waxing lyrical)

[Judi Richardson]

MessageMike and everyone -- wonderful conversation and fodder for
reflection.

In my experience, I find spurts of balance <grin>!  And simply noticing them
bring more -- noticing the peace that is left when resistance subsides.

Your words on relationships speaks to me.  When in any kind of relationship,
when there is difference, I can choose to see my internal stories that may
limit my evolving nature.  It is like a progression as I choose to see that
my buttons can only be pushed if I have them in the first place.....

You push my button
I have a button pushed
In my interaction with you, in our difference, I choose to have a button
pushed
I see I have a button to push
I pushed my button in the interaction
Noticing you, in your difference, liberates me!

cheers

Judi Richardson

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Mike
Copeland
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:19 PM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)


  Beautiful words everyone

  You have all brought me to the guts of my initial enquiry: how does one
find the balance between fear/control and letting go/going with the flow?

   Finding that balance comes back to being a co-creator with spirit for me.
I am spirit's hands, eyes, ears, mouth piece; yet I am not all of it!

  Spirit flows regardless of whether I hold its waters tight or with open
palms. My experience is enhanced or diminished depending on my stance. This
is what open space is teaching me. My co-operation, malleableness,
flexibility, ultimately openness to spirit is what life is all about.

  The four principles, one law and spirit of open space are not just for
meetings. They are for living! In trying to live these things out, in the
furnace of everyday trials, especially in relationships, open space provides
me with a framework to be receptive to spirit; mine and the world's.

  That's all
  Mike Copeland



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Peggy Holman [mailto:peggy at opencirclecompany.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2003 9:35 a.m.
    To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
    Subject: Fw: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)


    Robyn -- lovely image!

    This conversation reminds me of one from last January called
"self-organization is what consciousness (spirit) does".

    I pulled this snippet of mine from it:

    I recently was given a gift of an image around this that I've found
quite
    helpful.   A Buddhist priest attended Spirited Work (a learning
community
    that gathers quarterly in OS).  He used an image of hands for holding
space.
    Actually, here are Master Chang's words:

    >Since I left Whidbey Island, I've constantly thought of OS and its
    spiritual manifestation in earthly conditionings. It's dawn[ed] on me
that
    >we constantly create mental boundaries and then transfigure them into
    organizational rules, etc., which we call containers. Thus, there are
    >levels upon levels of containers, depending on levels of minds that we
    have. What OP[OST] methodology attracts me is the way it can
    >facilitate and accommodate multi-levels of containers by very few
simple
    rules of gathering and interaction. The challenge for me in >creating an
    OP[OST] organization is to be able to make available (and to promote)
    evolutionary & consequential levels of
    >unfoldment ... so one can evolve from "container/2 hands cupped, facing
    each other" to "supporter/2 hands open, facing upwards" to
>"being/handless
    gesture" ...


    I LOVE this picture of hands reflecting the evolution of space, perhaps
    because it mirrors my own growing comfort with space.  (While I aspire
to
    it, I'm not sure I'm ready to hang out in the space of "look ma, no
hands!")
    It reminds me that we are all at different places of comfort with
openness.
    I may go screaming from the room when the space feels too closed and
someone
    else go running to their room because the space is too open.


    Peggy

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    From: "Robyn" <pov at IINET.NET.AU>
    To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
    Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:22 AM
    Subject: Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)


    > RE:
    > If you close those two hands - you end up with two fists. Definitely
not
    > what we want.
    >
    > ~ (delighted laughter!) I pictured the closing of two open hands, like
    > an almond.  The result, according to a dear and wise women that I
know,
    > is the mandorla, which has become a very powerful symbol for me in my
    > journey towards wholeness.
    >
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